Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Worthless, false, or ridiculous speech or writing; nonsense.
- noun Garbage fed to hogs; swill.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The refuse of a kitchen or brewery, etc., given to swine as food; swill.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Swill.
- noun Meaningless talk; nonsense; balderdash; bunk; -- also used as an interjection, expressing scornful disbelief.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun slang foolish talk or writing;
nonsense . - noun
swill .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)
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Examples
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Where do I sign up to send all of my money to these people to ensure that these crooks can preach their hogwash from the highest mountain?
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Now this hogwash is centre stage when homes are reprocessed, pensioners are on the breadline, Britain is heading for a police state, shame on the BBC, it was only a matter of time before the state took over the BBC.
Archive 2008-10-01 Not a sheep 2008
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HENRY: Now when pressed on the criticism that the White House has lost credibility because of mistakes made in Iraq, the vice president dismissed that criticism as, quote, "hogwash" -- Lou?
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HENRY: And when pressed by CNN's Wolf Blitzer about the criticism that the White House has lost credibility because of mistakes made in Iraq, the vice president said, quote, "hogwash" -- Miles.
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No. That would be called hogwash in Luttrell, Tennessee.
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That would be called hogwash in Luttrell, Tennessee.
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Some observers fear their capabilities are dwarfed by the task ahead and that their plan amounts to what one diplomat called "hogwash".
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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I announce the idea hogwash, scribble a host of totally disconnected references to the Bible, ancient near eastern kings, some hieroglyphs, a stolen word or two of Chinease I've picked up
Wired Campus 2010
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I announce the idea hogwash, scribble a host of totally disconnected references to the Bible, ancient near eastern kings, some hieroglyphs, a stolen word or two of Chinease I've picked up
Wired Campus 2010
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I announce the idea hogwash, scribble a host of totally disconnected references to the Bible, ancient near eastern kings, some hieroglyphs, a stolen word or two of Chinease I've picked up
Wired Campus 2010
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